breathe right are your children spending too much time at school preparing for and taking standardized tests? president obama thinks so and he has plenty of company. kevin corke adds it all up for us at the white house. reporter: it s gone too far. that s what president obama said over the weekend about school testing, taking to facebook to discuss the issue. tests should be just one source of information used alongside classroom work and surveys and other factors to give us an all-around look at how our students and our schools are doing. the president using the social media site to promote his plan to implement new ways to measure student aptitude, a reversal of years of promoting new testing of reverse outcomes. the white house wants a cap on
makes sure everybody s on track. second, tests shouldn t occupy too much classroom time, tests should enhance teaching and learning. and third, tests should be just one source of information, used alongside classroom work and surveys and other factors to give us an all around look at how our students and our schools are doing. that s a major announcement from the white house. they want to limit the number of standardized tests that are taken by kids in public schools across this country. republican presidential front-runner donald trump said last week on fox news sunday he wants to get rid of the department of education. let s talk about this. maria cardona, buck sexton both back with me. your take on this, this is probably an issue that does not get enough attention in these elections. it doesn t get enough attention. i think testing is, honestly, a secondary issue to the broader and more important issue of
is roxanne gray. i m wondering what we re seeing is a real life manifestation of the virtual violence that women experience online? absolutely. we re seeing that there really are no boundaries that won t be crossed when it comes to women, their privacy and their bodies. it s incredibly frustrating that yet another fraternity or yet another group of men has taken it upon themselves to do some sort of thing and then everyone acts surprised. there s nothing to be surprised about here. it s really just the same old, same old. amir i want to come to you. one of the reasons i wanted roxanne here and you here is because of the work that you both do on college campuses. we were talking about a place where we can investigate our masculinity and think about our notions of gender. shouldn t college campuses be the place where that is happening? exactly. and i think that s woefully how that s underrepresented in terms of how we do out of classroom
first a pizza delivery man robs a bank with a bomb around his neck. these suckers say you have 55 minutes, man, what are you going to do? that s just the beginning of one of the most bizarre crimes ever. drew griffin unwraps the pizza bomber. 911 emergency. we ve just been robbed. is anyone hurt? no. he walked out the door. august 28th, 2003. erie, pennsylvania. within minutes of robbing a bank, brian wells is surrounded by police. cross legged on the ground and handcuffed. he told police, he was a pizza delivery man and he delivered a pizza. the group he delivered it to captured him, he told police. put this bomb on his neck and told him to rob a bank. he asks police to call his boss. then to save his life. 25 minutes ticked by. then the device begins to beep. in an instant, the bank robber is dead. the death of brian wells in this parking lot that day turned out to be only the beginning of the most elaborate, intricate, and some say still unsolved bank robbery
resume big-time. it s padding. you re either a student pilot or you re not. you re either cleared for the visual or you re not. you either get to the fly jets or you can t. the fact is, it sure seems to me that this guy fabricated his resume and was never a teacher. a teacher would be offended saying someone is a teacher s assistant is qualified to do the same classroom work. mark kirk taught in the classroom. he s, he did some teaching. that s a completely different thing. i don t think they re all aligned. let s talk about. i ve been in many classrooms so that qualifies me as a teacher. you should, good. no, i won t. it s called padding in the poker world. gentlemen, great to have you with us. we re on fire tonight. i appreciate your time. that s all we ve got time for tonight. i m glad both of you are after it. thanks joe, thanks john. coming up, here in colorado